Belle de Jour by Antoine Lie for Eris Parfums 2016

Barbara Herman is amazing. She has a blog Yesterday’s Perfume that we all read religiously when we need to check our vintage frags out. Wrote a book Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume, which quite a few of my frag buddies got for Christmas 2014. Now she has started a perfume house, a crowdfunded one no less, which starts its story with three fragrances. Thanks Barbara for sending me samples, so good.

GIVEAWAY WEEK

Writing a blog about fragrance means we get sent LOADS of things. It’s one of the perks. On the flip side is that there just doesn’t seem to be enough days in the month to get this stuff onto the blog and out to you all. This week I am dedicating APJ to a GIVEAWAY WEEK! Yes, every day for six out of seven days there will be a 24 hour GIVEAWAY. That’s right, you’ll have 24 hours to get your comment in and then it will be drawn. Enter every day if you like but only one comment per day. Got it?

Belle de Jour by Eris Parfums 2016

Belle de Jour by Antoine Lie

Why did I choose Belle de Jour to write about? I think many people have the impression that an animalic perfume needs to be huge, a ball breaking, axe wielding Amazon of a fragrance. Belle de Jour is proof that they need be no such thing. If anything it plays quite the demure wallflower, pretty but you’d hardly notice the raunch it unless you get in really close and suddenly Belle de Jour becomes nuit d’amour.

A lightly sizzling fruit compote opening that has green undertones keeping it grounded. A fresh, blue sky and joyfully summertime fragrance that does clean, sweet and green in a thoroughly modern vintage reincarnation. Dry green wood comes through, like pruning camellia branches or old cold tea leaves, and Belle de Jour is cool. Both the cool of temperature and cool kids. I can imagine it being perfect for both sexes but does skew towards modern feminine, extremely wearable.

The raunch in Belle de Jour is cleverly contained within a jasmine, seaweed, musk pyramid. It smells like sea air meets humanity and floats below soft and pretty fragrance. An interesting dichotomy and only super noticeable in testing conditions. Outside it’s hardly even a hint.

Belle de Jour GIVEAWAY

WHAT CAN YOU WIN?

This week we will have 1 winner who will receive:1 x Belle de Jour Sample (my review sample remnants)
P&H Anywhere in the world

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Tell us your favourite animal scent

HOUSEKEEPING

Entries Close TOMORROW Tuesday 31st May 2016 10pm Australian EST and winners will be announced in a separate post.
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26 thoughts on “Belle de Jour by Antoine Lie for Eris Parfums 2016”

Mmmm…Belle de Jour…I instantly have to think of Catherine Deneuve in Bunuel’s movie. She was the embodiment of the sensual woman in the 60-ies. If the perfume is half as sexy as she was, it’s a winner 😀
Thanks for reviewing it and for the giveaway week!
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Hi Portia, thank you for your generous give a way week. I follow APJ by mail. I’m not sure if I have a favourite animal scent, except ofcourse my dog’s paws, ears and head…I increasingly enjoy BWF, Jasmina by April Aromatics, pure indolic jasmine. And I love Une Fleur de Cassie, which some find skanky, but to my nose it is just a soft, warm and beautiful, and one of my favourite scents.

Not too sure about indolic scents like huge jasmine, BWF’s etc. but I am a fan of Absolue Pour le Soir and Jubilation 25 which I find a bit animalic. And honey scents like Kiste, have to be in the mood for it though!
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What an exciting week of giveaways! I am not sure I have any animalic perfumes. Or, perhaps I do but don’t recognize them as such? Of the ones others have listed, the only one I’ve sniffed is Jubilation 25, and I’m not sure I get what’s animalic about that. Also, I have no idea what seaweed would smell like in a perfume. I follow by e-mail! Thanks for your generosity 🙂

I follow your blog with email, the first thing I read almost every morning! My favorite animal scent is Muscs Koublai Khan. My second favorite is not exactly animal, but stomps like one, Kenzo Jungle Elephant, more spicy oriental. Thank you for your reviews!

This might not get a lot of fans, but for me, Chanel no. 5 is animalic. I hover between distaste and love with this one; but sealing the deal is the reaction of my cat. The last time I wore it, she sniffed my wrist thoroughly, looked me full in the eyes and bit me – hard.

Following by email.
My favourite animal scent is civet (and actual skunk spray). A scent I miss is Revlon Intimate. A scent I currently wear is Givenchy Ysatis — there’s a lot of civet bolstering that ylang-ylang.
Thanks for the draw.

When I think of animal perfumes or colognes .. I think of being a child and the man who rented a room in my uncles house.. it was the 70’s , he wore flat fronted bell bottomed slacks with tight t-shirts and cuban heels and leather bomber jackets His curly hair was brul creamed with a side part and formed in waves and he splashed on Pino Sylvestre..
How do I know .. he used to let me try it ..

Was it my favourite ? I am not sure.. But It sure left an impression on me and I can still remember him to this day.